A real-life situation based on a real incident in actual locations with actual people involved.

Close-Up

Name: Close-Up
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 1990-05-09
Rating: 8

19901h 38mCrimeDrama

8.0

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Synopsis

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.